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LAB ON A CHIP
Volume 16, Issue 11, Pages 2050-2058Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6lc00416d
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- Major State Basic Research Development Program (973 Program) [2015CB352100]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81471750, 91323304]
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Electrokinetics at nanoscale has attracted broad attention as a promising conductivity based biochemical sensing principle with a good selectivity. The nanoparticle crystal, formed by self-assembling nanoparticles inside a microstructure, has been utilized to fulfill a nanoscale electrokinetics based biochemical sensing platform, named nanofluidic crystal in our previous works. This paper introduces a novel nanofluidic crystal scheme by packing nanoparticles inside a well-designed confined space to improve the device-to-device readout consistency. A pair of electrodes was patterned at the bottom of this tunnel-shaped confined space for ionic current recording. The readout from different chips (n = 16) varied within 8.4% under the same conditions, which guaranteed a self-calibration-free biochemical sensing. Biotin and Pb2+ were successfully detected by using nanofluidic crystal devices packed with streptavidin and DNAzyme modified nanoparticles, respectively. The limits of detection (LODs) were both 1 nM. This electrically readable nanofluidic crystal sensing approach may find applications in low cost and fast disease screening in limited resource environments.
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